Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness and silver nameplates drag in more kegs...
...robes of the Owegbes swirling about her, Ada Kika Emese strode to the witness stand, placed her right hand on a wedge of metal and swore her oath in the name of Ogun, god of iron. In the sweltering court room, citizens in sprawling white robes and gold-embroidered velvet caps listened intently to her testimony, their attention never flagging as they slipped off their sandals and methodically picked their toenails...
...Bear in mind, too, the fact that the then Mrs. Eddie Fisher had already been Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Hilton and Mrs. Wilding, though not yet 30 years old, and had long since changed her public image from that of the little girl who loved a horse in National Velvet." "Ingrid's really like a pixie," said one of her friends. Ingrid ("Fiffi") Finger, 19, is no such thing! Pixies do not come 5 ft. 7 in., 36-23-36-although the figures were spritely enough to convince the judges that Ingrid, a Miss Germany from Niirnberg, should be crowned...
Commodore Vanderbilt was a rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell...